What tv shows are you watching
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I read a couple of those books and thought they were terrible.
Three Pines, based on Louise Penny’s wildly successful novels, arrives on screen
The highly anticipated series debuts Dec. 2 on Primewww.theglobeandmail.com
Could this show fill a void in my life
I do think it might have been because they were later in the series and probably assumed you already liked those characters and I just couldn't care about them.
Wait... what? I was sure after I finished watching I investigated and found it was supposed to be just one season? This is great news, thanks.
Show promise
The Old Man: Most underrated series of the year
The thriller, for all its action sequences and cat-and-mouse games, has passion and authenticity
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The story involves an older white male who is required to take dangerous actions that seem unlikely for a man of his age. But this isn’t like one of those movie thrillers in which Liam Neeson is obliged to play the dad as action man. This is a seven-episode drama about the patient pursuit of reconciliation with the past.
Jeff Bridges plays Dan Chase, a man living alone off the radar, with his two dogs. He has dreams about his late wife and his nights are interrupted by multiple trips to the bathroom. He looks grizzled, tired, lonely but intact. Then someone breaks into the house aiming to kill him. He handles the attacker with a blunt but efficient defence. Then he hits the road.
Dan, if indeed that is his real name, is a wanted man. Decades before, he was a CIA operative in several places, but principally Afghanistan where he covertly helped the locals fight the Soviet soldiers after the country was invaded. He killed, supplied weapons, kept secrets and, it seems, became involved with the wife of a powerful man in Afghanistan. His past is very messy and now someone wants him eliminated.
On the road, Dan meets a woman and they seem to like each other. Zoe (Amy Brenneman) is a woman of an age where she’s wise to the selfishness of older men, wary of involvement and suspicious of men who seem to have big secrets. The scenes between the two characters are beautifully done. These are often long scenes, staged quietly, giving the actors space to say a great deal with hesitations and silences.
There is action at intervals, mind you. An early scene in which Dan and Amy are in her car and are stopped by police is a scene that takes your breath away. Thing is, Dan imagines a ferocious way out but we see it, even if it’s in his imagination. And there are further scenes in which you worry about the beating that Jeff Bridges, age 72, is taking, as he obviously does many stunts himself. And you would be further worried if you were aware that during filming, production was shut down when Bridges was diagnosed with both COVID-19 and lymphoma. He has recovered.
Chasing Dan, in a twisted way, is an equally obdurate old man, Harold Harper (John Lithgow), and part of the very coiled plot seething beneath the surface is that Harper worked with Dan in the long ago and he too doesn’t want old secrets revealed. Plus, a secret about the identity of Dan’s daughter, the only person he seems to contact, is revealed to viewers in the early going. Around Harper (Lithgow manages to make the old spy figure both sinister and sympathetic), there are other circles of deception and menace. Harper’s protégé Angela (Alia Shawkat, who played Dory on Search Party) knows too much, while her careerist colleague Raymond (E.J. Bonilla) hasn’t a clue what’s happening.
The intricate plotting (it was adapted by Jonathan E. Steinberg and Robert Levine from Thomas Perry’s more action-focused novel) would irritate were it not for the strength of the performances and the pacing. In particular, the chemistry between Brenneman and Bridges is a thing to behold. The characters are given time to chat, idly, over meals and attempt to learn about each other. Brenneman’s Zoe recognizes the familiar in Dan Chase. She’s old enough to have met men like him, even when he thinks he’s unique.
When the lists for best-of-the year are written, The Old Man should be there. It often amounts to mature characters having mature conversations about youth, passion, aging and vulnerability. That’s so rare these days. Catch up with it while you can.
I downloaded Gangs of London a while back. Season 1 was challenging to watch.
Great show! Looking forward to season 2
Show promise
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The Old Man: Most underrated series of the year
The thriller, for all its action sequences and cat-and-mouse games, has passion and authenticity
The story involves an older white male who is required to take dangerous actions that seem unlikely for a man of his age. But this isn’t like one of those movie thrillers in which Liam Neeson is obliged to play the dad as action man. This is a seven-episode drama about the patient pursuit of reconciliation with the past.
Jeff Bridges plays Dan Chase, a man living alone off the radar, with his two dogs. He has dreams about his late wife and his nights are interrupted by multiple trips to the bathroom. He looks grizzled, tired, lonely but intact. Then someone breaks into the house aiming to kill him. He handles the attacker with a blunt but efficient defence. Then he hits the road.
Dan, if indeed that is his real name, is a wanted man. Decades before, he was a CIA operative in several places, but principally Afghanistan where he covertly helped the locals fight the Soviet soldiers after the country was invaded. He killed, supplied weapons, kept secrets and, it seems, became involved with the wife of a powerful man in Afghanistan. His past is very messy and now someone wants him eliminated.
On the road, Dan meets a woman and they seem to like each other. Zoe (Amy Brenneman) is a woman of an age where she’s wise to the selfishness of older men, wary of involvement and suspicious of men who seem to have big secrets. The scenes between the two characters are beautifully done. These are often long scenes, staged quietly, giving the actors space to say a great deal with hesitations and silences.
There is action at intervals, mind you. An early scene in which Dan and Amy are in her car and are stopped by police is a scene that takes your breath away. Thing is, Dan imagines a ferocious way out but we see it, even if it’s in his imagination. And there are further scenes in which you worry about the beating that Jeff Bridges, age 72, is taking, as he obviously does many stunts himself. And you would be further worried if you were aware that during filming, production was shut down when Bridges was diagnosed with both COVID-19 and lymphoma. He has recovered.
Chasing Dan, in a twisted way, is an equally obdurate old man, Harold Harper (John Lithgow), and part of the very coiled plot seething beneath the surface is that Harper worked with Dan in the long ago and he too doesn’t want old secrets revealed. Plus, a secret about the identity of Dan’s daughter, the only person he seems to contact, is revealed to viewers in the early going. Around Harper (Lithgow manages to make the old spy figure both sinister and sympathetic), there are other circles of deception and menace. Harper’s protégé Angela (Alia Shawkat, who played Dory on Search Party) knows too much, while her careerist colleague Raymond (E.J. Bonilla) hasn’t a clue what’s happening.
The intricate plotting (it was adapted by Jonathan E. Steinberg and Robert Levine from Thomas Perry’s more action-focused novel) would irritate were it not for the strength of the performances and the pacing. In particular, the chemistry between Brenneman and Bridges is a thing to behold. The characters are given time to chat, idly, over meals and attempt to learn about each other. Brenneman’s Zoe recognizes the familiar in Dan Chase. She’s old enough to have met men like him, even when he thinks he’s unique.
When the lists for best-of-the year are written, The Old Man should be there. It often amounts to mature characters having mature conversations about youth, passion, aging and vulnerability. That’s so rare these days. Catch up with it while you can.
‘Wednesday’ Fans, This Cast Member Accidentally Answered a Huge Season 2 Question
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*SPOILER Alert*
Though Principal Weems met her tragic ending at Nevermore, it may not be the final nail in her coffin. Actress Gwendoline Christie teased in a Digital Spy interview: "We haven't seen her put in the ground, have we? I feel like Larissa Weems would not really be prepared to entertain or be dominated by anything as commonplace as death."
‘Wednesday’ Fans, Jenna Ortega Just Gave an Exciting Update on a Season 2 Release Date
The Tim Burton-led Netflix show 'Wednesday' stars Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams. Here's all we know about the season 2 release date, cast news and more.
*SPOILER Alert*
Though Principal Weems met her tragic ending at Nevermore, it may not be the final nail in her coffin. Actress Gwendoline Christie teased in a Digital Spy interview: "We haven't seen her put in the ground, have we? I feel like Larissa Weems would not really be prepared to entertain or be dominated by anything as commonplace as death."
Before he was cast as the genteel natured Hound in GoTs, Rory McCann put MagellanTV on the streaming map. He was perfect as Attila the Hun.
Woke types called it whitewashing, he was an Oriental Warlord. I seriously doubt people from the Far East would mind, he's not exactly a reverential figure.
Woke types called it whitewashing, he was an Oriental Warlord. I seriously doubt people from the Far East would mind, he's not exactly a reverential figure.
President Obama is Uncle Fester.
I thoroughly enjoyed Wednesday, it was a macabre murder mystery. Luis Guzman (Gomez) and Catherine Zeta Jones (Morticia) hooked me in from the start then Jenna Ortega (Wednesday) took over. What impressed me the most was the supreme awesomeness of Thing, he/she/it wasn't created with CGI. An actor/sign language expert played the role using his own hand, it was spectacular to watch. Thing belongs in the Shatner pantheon of Gods.
I thoroughly enjoyed Wednesday, it was a macabre murder mystery. Luis Guzman (Gomez) and Catherine Zeta Jones (Morticia) hooked me in from the start then Jenna Ortega (Wednesday) took over. What impressed me the most was the supreme awesomeness of Thing, he/she/it wasn't created with CGI. An actor/sign language expert played the role using his own hand, it was spectacular to watch. Thing belongs in the Shatner pantheon of Gods.
When a wild tiger kills men who enter his territory he is declared a man-eater and locked up in a zoo. This galvanizes massive social uproar and activists take their cause to the streets, online, on to billboards and all the way to the Supreme Court.
Seems promising....
Just to clear up a purposeful rue, President Obama does not ply Uncle Fester in Wednesday. It's Fred Armisen who played President Obama on SNL.
It was cute and enjoyable, but I don't think it needed it to be "Wednesday Addams" in any way.
Ortega was great at what she was asked to do, but it really was just an excuse to get a high school weirdness show made and didn't really feel very specifically "Addams family".
